By Samuel Langat Nigeria does not have a sanitation problem because people are unaware. It has a sanitation problem because for decades, the approaches relied on have not scaled. Today, over 130 million Nigerians lack access to safely managed sanitation, and more than 48 million still practice open defecation. These are not abstract numbers, they […]

By VICTOR-BANDELE DADA Systemic instability in political economy is primarily a product of cognitive failure rather than inherent moral turpitude. By distinguishing between “unenlightened” (short-horizon) and “enlightened” (long-horizon) self-interest, agents frequently undermine their own long-term utility through a failure to account for systemic interdependencies.  Drawing on Socratic philosophy, Smithian economics, and modern Game Theory, this paper […]

he deeper issue, then, is not Sowore versus Obi as personalities, but how a society manages the balance between revolutionary urgency and reformist patience

By MANUAL KEITA  Almost half a year after Paul Biya’s inauguration as President of Cameroon for an eighth term, his country is facing increasing tensions in the security sector. This time, the instability comes from outside Cameroon – from its regional neighbours, including Chad, the Central African Republic, and Niger, and most importantly, Nigeria.  By […]

It was in 2022. I was on the road to Abeokuta for one of Governor Dapo Abiodun’s campaigns when my phone rang. It was MISA. We had not spoken in close to a year, and at the time, we were on opposite sides in court. I answered expecting the friction that comes with litigation. Instead, […]